What we think is the right road
If ever there were an oxymoron – a contradiction in terms – it surely is "holy war." War is always horrible, always a great evil, always morally unjustifiable. The Catechism of the Catholic Church makes...

In a sacramental marriage, spouses are called to model their lives and their union not only on the original experience of Adam and Eve before the fall, but more so on the union of Christ and the Church.
At a wedding, when a father presents...

Religious men and women, in their radical following of Christ, embrace the three evangelical counsels of poverty, chastity and obedience. All the faithful are called to imitate the Lord Jesus by living out these virtues in their daily lives,...

Don't blink or you will miss yet another assault on religious liberty in America, this time in the name of "sexual health," "reproductive rights" and "gender identity" – all according to two innocuously-titled proposed pieces of legislation...

What we think is the right road
What we must prize, beyond all else, are the virtues of tolerance, open-mindedness and tenderheartedness – all of which may be subsumed under the heading of "being pastoral." We are called to love people, meaning...

As a Southern writer and humorist who writes a weekly column that appears in several secular newspapers located within the Diocese of Charlotte, I often let people know I'm a Roman Catholic. I'm a convert to the faith from United Methodism,...

It is disheartening when people walk away from the Church.
Sometimes, when we try to talk, they run at us like some kid on the opposite team in a game of Red Rover. They want to break through our line and pull somebody else from the Church....